Family
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Real Persons
How to Know a Person:The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by david brooksrandom…
Christ-Haunted Sally Rooney
I grew up in Ireland in the 1970s and eighties. The parents of my friends, neighbors, cousins,…
New Yorkers, Vote “No” on Proposition One
For a while now, the consensus has been that “woke” is fizzling out after peaking in 2020.…
Parents Without Authority
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Leonard Sax joins in to…
The Tragedy of IVF
Several times over the last year, I have criticized IVF in my lectures. Each time I have…
Ungentle Parenting
What are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wisemanst martin’s, 336 pages,…
The Enduring Essence of the Mets
I grew up in working-class New York City in the 1980s, which means I grew up with…
The Humanity of Hospitality
Princeton professor Robert P. George recently drew my attention to a trivial but emblematic incident in which a flight…
Reality Is Strange
How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Elseby jeffrey j. kripalchicago, 312 pages,…
What Protestants Can Learn From Catholics
Two weeks ago I was at a conference in California where I had the joy of sitting…
What JD Vance Gets Right About “Childless Cat Ladies”
Three years ago, as a Senate candidate, JD Vance took aim at what he dubbed “the childless…
Prayer in a Time of War
I do not understand war. Even in the present time, for all my deeply felt moral and religious…
Charity, Good Manners, and Driving the Interstates
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says some interesting things about charity, the supreme theological virtue that,…
Why Millennials Aren’t Having Children
What Are Children For?:On Ambivalence and Choiceby anastasia berg and rachel wisemanrnst. martin’s press, 336 pages, $27…
Today the Weather
Today the weather brings to mindthe nature of the curved line,the many ways we measure time,the drawing…